htpasswd supports several different hash schemes. $apr1$ is the default and
isn't very portable (though is supported by nginx) because it's not exactly
MD5 as generated by crypt().
On Jun 7, 2012 4:15 PM, "Jim Klo" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wondering if there is a way to easily migrate a flat file of htpasswd
> users into couchdb _users?
>
> htpasswd typically uses crypt() which I think i based off a MD5, and
> couchdb uses SHA1.
>
> So essentially is there a stable authentication handler out there that
> replicates htpasswd?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jim
>
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> Jim Klo
> Senior Software Engineer
> Center for Software Engineering
> SRI International
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